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[vignesh babu]

Apples-MacBook-Pro:~ apple$ echo -n "$IFS" | hexdump
0000000 20 09 0a
0000003




On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:20 AM, vignesh babu <jvigneshbabu at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I got the exact same thing...
>
> Apples-MacBook-Pro:~ apple$ echo -n "$IFS" | hexdump
> 0000000 20 09 0a
> 0000003
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 30, 2014, at 1:17 PM, vignesh babu wrote:
>> >
>> > Would it help if I remove the /opt directory & redo the whole thing?
>>
>> It doesn't sound like it.
>>
>> Larry's and Brandon's analysis sounds brilliant to me. What is the value
>> of IFS on the problem system? Since IFS normally contains whitespace
>> characters, maybe a good way to see what's in it is to feed it to hexdump,
>> by running:
>>
>>
>> echo -n "$IFS" | hexdump
>>
>>
>> Here's what I get on my system:
>>
>>
>> $ echo -n "$IFS" | hexdump
>> 0000000 20 09 0a
>> 0000003
>>
>>
>> ...showing that on my system IFS contains the three characters space
>> (character 20), tab (character 09) and newline (character 0a). What do you
>> get?
>>
>>
>
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